UPDATE: Swaggart has had the clip pulled via a copyright claim. Here’s how Right Wing Watch recapped the clip: During the show, Swaggart asserted that, like ISIS, gay rights activists in America would publicly behead Christians if they could get away with it. “All of this is to shut the Bible up,” Swaggart declared. “They want the Bible gone. And …
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2014 Word Of The Year: Vape
Via CBS News: Of the many, many words that editors at Oxford Dictionaries review which have newly come into the language lexicon, only one has had enough of an influence in society to make it as 2014’s International Word of the Year. This year it’s “vape.” The Oxford Dictionary defines it as follows: v. Inhale and exhale the vapour produced …
Read More »An “Ex-Gay” At Vatican Marriage Meeting
Jeremy Hooper writes at Good As You: Here’s the scene at Day Two, where participants (including Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, Tony Perkins, Ryan T. Anderson and a whole host of anti-gay political activists) were greeted with a video that claims sexual orientation is nothing more than a political construct, followed by a lengthy clip of a gay man insisting that …
Read More »Pioneering Author Leslie Feinberg Dies
Via the Advocate: Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica, after decades of illness. She died at home in Syracuse, NY, with her partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, …
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BRITAIN: LGBT Chorus Takes Over Transit After Violent Attack On Gay Men
Via the Guardian: A lesbian and gay choir staged a mass singalong on Manchester’s tram network after homophobic thugs attacked two young gay men who were singing songs from the musical Wicked on a night out. The event – entitled Safe to Sing – started with about 80 singers boarding trams in the city centre on Monday evening to belt …
Read More »Launched: New Texas Marriage Campaign
Via press release from Freedom To Marry: Freedom to Marry, in partnership with Equality Texas, today launched a public education campaign to amplify the bipartisan momentum for the freedom to marry in the Lone Star State. The campaign, called Texas for Marriage, will highlight that support as well as the continued harms that committed gay couples face everyday until the …
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Read More »Virginia Goes For LGBT Tourists
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe yesterday announced that his state has formed a task force to pursue LGBT tourism. Speaking to a crowd of 400 tourism industry professionals, McAuliffe said the creation of the task force continues upon his campaign theme of openness and equality for all Virginians. “I’ve been very vocal on the topic,” McAuliffe told the Times-Mirror. “As I …
Read More »Bearforce 1 – Action Man
Bearforce 1 is back and this is their contest entry to represent Switzerland at Eurovision 2015. The group broke up in 2009 after landing several minor European chart hits including the 2007 disco medley, Christmas Is Here. Only original lead singer Robert Brown is part of the new lineup.
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